on immigration, a bipartisan bill tomorrow and on gun safety we expect a vote on legislation this week. add that together with the president's newly released budget and you have three major pieces of his legacy all being debated at the same time. so let's start with the gun debate where there has been some important movement. four republican senators now say they will support a background checks bill. and a major gun rights group is also onboard. the citizens committee for right to keep and bear arms supports the agreement calling itself the second largest gun rights group behind the nra and this is a highly unusual split among gun rights activists although it is not clear if this bill is going to pass. >> it's going to be close. it's going to be 60-61 votes. >> it's an open question as to whether or not we have votes. it will be close. >> the key battle is with a handful of republicans who voted for closing debate but haven't yet committed on background

checks. >> do you have the votes at this moment or not? >> we haven't whipped it. i can tell you this. when it gets down to it, we have to ask the basic question. should we try to keep hands out of the hands of felons and those mentally unstable they shouldn't own a firearm? >> i want to bring in slate political reporter and msnbc reporter and also editorial director for "the national journal." good morning, gentlemen. the nra has been against bans on high capacity magazines and even background checks. this other group comes out and says, yes, to the compromise. i guess my question is even though we know this is unusual for this kind of split, does anyone in the gun rights battle matt matt matter besides the nra? >> it's important whenever you have a coalition with competing faction. the president's biggest problem is the house. he might get something out of the senate but it looks hard to see how you get anything even as

something as reasonable as extending the current background check. hard to see how it gets through the house. >> let me play something that senator chris murphy said on "morning joe" today. >> a lot of folks will vote against this and they believe the best way to solve the problem is throw a mess of guns out there and let folks shoot it out. they say the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> his analysis is that there is just an ideological divide. is that really tough to break and why do you still see democrats who are supporting it? >> the democrats on the fence are up for re-election in 2014 in states that are pro-gun. you can point to whatever poll you like. you can say 90% of the people approve of background checks. that's generally true. it's complicated. democrats don't think the leg work has been done to convince the average montana swing voter who usually votes for max baucus that this bill will not create a

national gun registry. some democrats will tell you that a lot of people think there are universal background checks and the bill is redundant. they need to do that work. as to what you were saying before, the fact that nra says they will score the filibuster vote this week, it's a test for red state democrats and republicans to see if they are willing to buck the nra because they are willing to have a conversation with constituents about what is really at stake in the bill. that's not clear yet. >> there's been a lot of talk about the thing that has made a change that we're even at the point we are at now is newtown families because they've been meeting with senators and then of course unprecedented one of the moms delivered the president's weekly address. let me play a little bit of that. >> our younger son, ben, age 6, was murdered in his first grade classroom on december 14th, exactly four months ago this

weekend. please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy. >> those families met with john cornyn and marco rubio and both of them said i felt their pain but i'm still a no. i mean, back to the point of some of these entrenched views or people who don't think that 90% -- i guess they're in their districts or in their states but they don't think they'll vote on it. i'm not quite sure. what do you think the calculation is there? >> like dave was alluding to. a lot of members of congress are more worried about being primary than doing what the broader american people, broader polls show indicate needs to be done or eventually will be done. this might be something that doesn't happen right away. some of the bigger pieces of legislation that congress eventually passes takes a little bit of time and takes a few failures. it might be that we have to unfortunately have more kids die. it might be that we have to have

the coalition that president obama won two elections with, i think if you look underneath the numbers, that coalition is more inclined towards gun regulation than the current make up of the electorate. it may take time. it's stunning that this thing might not eveni be debated on i the house. >> susan collins said i'll get behind this bill. one of the republicans that signed onto it. there are already ads up in maine against her. let me play a clip of that. >> susan collins, call and tell susan collins to oppose obama's gun control. >> she's up for re-election next year. she's worried she could lose her seat to a strong gun rights democrat. she says republicans should be helping her and not turning against her. there was a pretty heated meeting about all this.

fascinating, isn't it? >> she's frustrated by that. the group that you're talking about will e-mail fund-raising letters with endorsements from rand paul and rand paul's little network is connected to them. sometimes you have a reason for supporting a bill and sometimes it's the personal thing that pushes you over the line. when she's been talking to reporters in the halls of senate, she'll bring up this group attacking her and she finds it unfair. getting to what you were talking about at the top of the segment, what democrats are counting on here is we are used to a united nra coalition and gun manufacturers getting what they want and getting more guns out there. they are not used to this division between groups that are trying to one up each other. gun owners of america. national association of gun rights. you might alienate a couple republicans and a couple red state democrats who just say, look, if we're taking the debate this far into the swamp, i can't possibly go there. we have to put down a stake at

some point. you have collins wso far the ony person for who that applies but they hope it happens to other republicans and democrats who are in red states who don't have a strong challenger yet. >> senators aren't just divided on guns. the president's budget is taking criticism from the right and left. tomorrow both the house and senate will hold hearings on parts of the budget. let me bring in senator bernie sanders, independent from vermont. senator, good morning. >> good morning. >> considering the president's budget raises taxes on wealthy and closes corporate loopholes, is it fair to make small changes in social security and medicare? >> think we should make changes in social security to make sure that social security can pay out all benefits for the next 50 or 75 years. what i do not believe is that we should support the so-called changed cpi which makes significant cuts in social security on the backs of people who can ill afford to experience

those cuts. we're talking if you're 65 years of age right now, by the time you're 75, that's $650 a year less. that is a lot of money if you are trying to live on $15,000 a year when social security hasn't added a nickel to the deficit. >> let me stop you on the numbers. the big headline was democrats need to stop attacking obama's budget and wake up to reality. chained cpi would yield $2 less a month in the average social security check and as its effects multiplied, the difference would be $126 approximately 2,100 instead of 2,200 a month. why is that too much to ask is the question that supporters are asking? >> first of all, the numbers that i believe to be absolutely accurate is that if you're 65 now, by the time you are 75, you're going to lose $650 a

year. period. furthermore, we're talking about very significant cuts for disabled veterans. very significant cuts. the cost of a lifetime tens of thousands of dollars a year. do i think we should balance the budget on the backs of disabled vets and their families? no, i do not. especially when social security is funded by the payroll tax, it's not responsible for the deficit in any way. so we want to deal with long-term solvency of social security but not through the context of deficit reduction. >> so would that be a payroll tax hike because obviously that's going to be a tough, tough fight with the republicans. >> well, you know, maybe with the republicans but it's not with the american people. the american people poll after poll say that it is absurd that if you make $1 million a year and you make $113,000 a year, you both put the same amount of money into the social security trust fund. >> senator, you know because we look at guns right now, 90% of

the american people favor background checks and that's not even looking like a sure thing. i understand that the polls say that americans like to tax millionaires but the reality of getting that through congress is something different all together. >> and then if there are people -- that's what democracy is about. if people choose to go against what the vast majority of the people in their districts or state or this nation believe, they have to pay a price. what i can tell you is in the midst of a horrendous recession where middle class is disappearing and gap between people on top and everyone else is growing wider, the american people understand how important it is not to cut social security or benefits for disabled vets. >> "the new york times" i'm sure you saw this is reporting that liberal groups and unions are threatening to challenge democrats from the left. house republicans may use this attack on seniors and general election which is very interesting that suddenly they are saying that it is the president, the administration, who is attacking seniors.

how important do you think this could be in 2014 and potentially in 2016. >> we're aware that the republicans spent millions of dollars saying inaccurately that democrats cut medicare in the day after the election they talked about ending medicare as we know it. clearly many of us understand for years the republicans have either wanted to privatize social security or make massive cuts in social security. would i be surprised if democrats support the president's cuts to social security the republicans will jump on that issue in 30-second tv ads, i would not be surprised. >> senator barry sanders, good to have you on the program. when you hear talk about future implications for this, there was immediate buzz, ron, about elizabeth warren because she said don't touch my medicare or social security. what do you think? will that drive people to the polls in 2014 or '16? >> not if both sides here get off the stick and do their jobs.

the fact is there is a huge policy incentive to have a big budget deal and there's a huge political incentive on both sides to have a budget deal. if they did that, the republicans for example it would be so much easier for them to call for cuts and to be able to work on entitlements witho. if tax increases come with that it's easier for democrats in the future to go for more tax cuts. the two sides would not be able to demagogue each other. the country needs it to happen. it would be great to see if leaders could step up and get this thing done. >> if we're talking about the obama legacy, is he going to be the guy who changed medicare and social security or if he makes incremental changes that keep just keep it going, it's a ronald reagan, tip o'neil moment. >> he said he would in 2008. less so in 2012.

in 2008, if you read his website or speeches, you got impression that he would do something that would change entitlements. i think of mitch mcconnell when we were getting closer to a deal on the debt limit. the great thing about compromise you mentioned, tip o'neil and ronald reagan, both parties suffered so they were both wounded and couldn't attack each other on being the party that cut social security. he's one of the resisters to a deal right now for personal reasons that fiscal cliff deal being so agonizing. somewhere there's a feeling if this happens again it would be good for everyone to suffer politically. >> good to see both of you. thank you. secretary of state john kerry now on his way home after wrapping up a ten-day overseas tour. in tokyo this morning, he said the u.s. is still open to talks with north korea but the burden is on pyongyang. today the north is celebrating

the 101st birthday of its founder and there were concerns it would test fire a missile to mark the occasion. kerry talked about that when he sat down with our own andrea mitchell. >> what does it mean if he does launch a missile or do a provocative act on this day, the anniversary, or in coming days. >> let me reverse that. so far today and we are only halfway through the day, there hasn't been a shoot and my hope is there won't be because that would mean perhaps we're turning a corner and there's a possibility of moving in a better direction. >> meantime secretary kerry will stop in chicago today to meet the family of the young u.s. diplomat killed in afghanistan on april 6th along with four other americans in a suicide bombing. she had been delivering textbooks to a school.

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with two hearings set for tomorrow on the budget, expect more controversy over the pentagon's plan to close military bases and reduce the civilian workforce. in its latest budget, defense is requesting about 2.4 billion over the next five years for a round of base closures that would start in 2015. republican lawmakers have already dismissed the controversial proposal. oklahoma senator jim inhofe, the top republican, has declared the plan dead on arrival. let me bring in retired army colonel jack jacobs and former nevada congressman james bilbray, one of nine members of that commission. congressman, how tough a fight are you gearing up for? >> well, i think it's always been tough. every time they have a brac

commission there are people fighting it. the last one i was on in 2005, there was a lot of dispute. one senator actually put a hold on the chairman's nomination to prevent it from happening. >> the government accountability office says the department of defense underestimated costs associated with the most recent round of closures and that savings were overstated and the head of the house armed services committee says the cost to execute just don't make sense because in fact the savings won't accrue until 2018. what's the case you make? >> i will tell you, we saw a lot of errors. the one to focus on is where they told us what estimated cleanup of the site was because of the old base and what was dumped there and the fact that they also thought many employees when it was closed would leave and would not move down to aberdeen, maryland.

the cost of cleanup was two or three times what it was estimated to be and most of the employees because of the recession did move down to aberde aberdeen. look at the 1993 brac, parts of that haven't been cleaned up yet and costs are way over what the estimate of the pentagon is. it is just guesstimates. not estimates. >> how much of the opposition is financial? do we know what the numbers are and how much of it is understandably emotional. you go to local papers in the communities where these bases are threatened with closure and the headlines are very terrifying. >> it's all jobs. it's all about jobs at the end of the day. these bases employ significant numbers of local people and it has an economic spillover effect whether you have soldiers or civilians there or some combination. a big economic spillover effect positively into the region because they buy things and there's housing and the rest of

that stuff. >> the fact is as we know post-iraq and post-afghanistan we'll have 100,000 fewer troops in 2017 and given our military objectives, downsizing is happening and the question is can we justify keeping all of the bases open? >> i talked to some people inside who say that we're going to lose more than 100,000. the size of the forces are going to be significantly lower than that. it's mostly about money. you save money in this year if you get rid of people. closing bases does cost money. it takes some time to recoup whatever it costs to close it and the savings are in the out years. our biggest problem is that we don't really have a strategy, a national security strategy. we don't know how many troops of what kind we're going to need in 2018. we're not sure we know what we're going to need in 2015. the decisions that are made are made on economic and political

basis and the political arena is where the battle will be fought. >> congressman, is 100,000 less the number you guys were working with as you put this together? >> well, you know, at that time i asked questions of the pentagon basically are they going to start bringing troops back from europe? they said no. troops in europe will be there for another 30 to 40 years. troops began to come back. it's a lot of problems with brac. they go about telling you they'll move troops and realign them from ft. a to ft. bliss and you have buildings that go on at the new positions they move the troops to and it's a rough situation. the cost just escalate up. i think the cost savings -- what they estimate at 35 billion in savings from our brac they dropped to 17 and i bet they

saved 2 billion or 3 billion which is a lot but not what the pentagon thought they would save. >> we'll talk more about it. colonel jack jacobs and james bilbray, thanks to both of you. the faa is ordering inspections on more than 1,000 boeing 737 jets registered in the united states. there are concerns there could be faulty parts on the tails, which could cause pilots to lose control of the plane. the faa says the order was prompted by reports of an incorrect procedure used to apply a protective coating on the parts and that the order is a preventive measure and not a response to any immediate threat. it's monday.

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marco rubio's multimedia appearances this morning fueling more speculation he's considering a run for president in 2016. hard to miss him yesterday. the first guest ever to appear on all seven sunday shows. look at that. as he tried to bring an immigration reform bill to the finish line. >> can the nominee of the republican party in 2016 be a champion for an immigration reform policy that provides a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants in this country? >> i think that the nominee of our party needs to be someone that has answers to the problems our country faces. immigration is a serious problem. i haven't even thought about it in that way. >> seriously, senator? >> i haven't. i really haven't. >> senator, you clearly are at least considering running for president in 2016. isn't this -- >> says who?

>> pardon? >> let's bring in amy holmes, anchor of real news and angela is a political strategist and principle with impact strategies. good morning to you both. he was playing coy about this. is this sort of the -- that was an amazing picture. the seven boxes we call it here. on all of the five english speaking shows and then also on telemun telemundo. is this the rollout of 2016? >> it's rollout of marco rubio. it used to be called a full ginsberg. ginsberg was representing monica lewinsky. this time we see the politician run the gamut for a positive reason to promote himself and raise his profile. come 2016, someone who could be major competitor to him in just florida state politics is jeb bush. clearly he wanted to raise his

profile on an issue which clearly he thinks helps him. >> let me play another clip from marco rubio. he was asked about being out front on the immigration issue. here's what he said. >> do you think this would help or hurt marco rubio if he perhaps ran for president in 2016? >> you know, i haven't even thought about it in that way. >> seriously, senator? >> i haven't. i really haven't. i have a job. my belief has always been if i do my job and i do my job well, i'll have options and opportunities in the future food things whether it's run for re-election, run for something else, or give someone else a chance at public service. >> angela, this is his first big -- immigration, his first big initiative. rubio's presidential future, is it tied in some ways to the success of this immigration reform bill? >> there's no question about it. there's no secret that the gop is struggling severely with communities of color and latinos

happen to be one of those huge blocks. to have senator rubio out front on this issue but part of the gang of eight championing this potential plan is major for them. i'm sure the reasonable minds among them urged him to keep quiet a little bit last week when he talked about separate hearings from the judiciary committee markup, et cetera, and this week he's had to come up and say this is not amnesty although he said something different in 2010 when he had potential immigration solution. i'm sure that this isn't the last we'll see of marco rubio. i'm confident that the reasonable minds among gop have urged him to kind of take a step back and really champion this plan to ensure his chances of running in 2016. >> you have both done this on strategizing the way forward. if unlike what he says he's thinking about a run, our nbc/"wall street journal" poll released on friday found that 28% of voters see rubio in a positive light. 16% have a negative view.

more than half, 56% are neutral or frankly just don't know who he is. how do you start to sort of overcome that, amy? seven talk shows. >> that's a good start. >> in many ways you are preaching to the people who already know who marco rubio is, right? >> doing seven shows was a good start. what other senator, junior senator, are you seeing with this type of profile and this type of issue. to go back to whether or not championing comprehensive immigration reform is problematic for marco rubio if he's thinking of running for 2016, i would like to remind viewers that gop nominated someone who did and that was john mccain back in 2008. and george w. bush, he of course pushed very hard for comprehensive immigration reform. i worked for senator frist when he was majority leader working with the president trying to get that done. there's this false narrative out there that the gop is unwilling

to support candidates who support immigration reform. >> this is the first time we've seen the possibility. it's not just about supporting it but having leadership to be able to move forward and get something done. >> we'll see if that happens. >> that's the big question, isn't it? if marco rubio wants to make a serious run for president, at what point does he have to sort of start to quietly reach out to donors and operatives. the schedule moves up so quickly. we're in such a different world. at what point whether it's marco rubio or any other republican for 2016 really have to start to make their intentions quietly known or are they already? >> i think it's pretty well known with sunday shows there's two spanish speaking shows that he did this week. i think that he's well on his way to making it very clear, even if it's not clear to himself that he's definitely in it for a run. i don't think this is a shocker to anybody if he really throws his hat in the ring.

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robinson broke major league baseball's race barrier on this day in 1947. it's the most ever for a baseball movie opening and today is jackie robinson day which was instituted by mlb in 2004. this is adam scott. he made history at this year's masters. the new champion is the first australian to win at augusta national. tiger woods with the controversial ball drop finished in a tie for fourth and youngest player from china got a standing ovation when he was the top scorer among amateurs. gold is losing its luster. gold prices are plunging and the stock market seems to be following suit. what's going on? >> it's the worst two-day drop for gold in 30 years, chris. the last time that we saw gold falling over 10% in two days was

back in 1983. you are absolutely right. it's particularly bad today and some are saying it's panic selling. we've got a number of things that are contributing to this. you have manufacturing slowing down in the new york state area. you have china growth slower than expected. it's not just gold. it's basically hurting all commodities like oil, copper, silver and other precious metals and gold has been hurting and one of the reasons for that is a proposed sale of gold holdings obviously to try to paydown debt and concerned that other nations in trouble in the eurozone may follow suit and if you add in concern that federal reserve here might start peeling back monetary stimulus toward the end of the year, it's a double whammy for gold. >> thank you very much. it's tax day. h&r block gave us a list of write-offs approved by the irs.

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workers in the future. >> joining me now, democratic congresswoman loretta sanchez of california, former chair of the border security committee. always good to see you congressman. i'll ask you about the border security provision of this. let me get you first to answer what you just heard because we have heard this repeatedly. the concern about the impact on american jobs. what's your take? >> well, i would believe that in the details that we'll see out of the senate or out of the house of course we'll have some type of provision that would guarantee that americans get to jobs first before we have any kind of a guest worker come into the country. that's the first thing. the reason that wages have stagnated or plummeting lower is because employers take advantage of people who don't have documents in our country and offer less wages and cheat them more and now that people will have documents, it will bring up the wage rate for people. >> you just appeared at a big

pro-reform rally. it's still going on. we have pictures of that. this bill as we understand it allows almost instant applications for citizenship but there are benchmarks on border security that have to be reached and maintained for ten years. do you support this? >> we have done done quite a bit on border security. as chairwoman several years ago of the committee, we went from a little under 5,000 border security or customs and border patrol people to about 23,000 today. we have increased the number of people we have. we have built some fences. we have sensors. we have drones. we have actually done a much better job of securing our borders. does more need to be done? i think so. should that be a trigger for allowing people already part of america who are here who are working and who are in their churches working and who are

volunteering at pta, et cetera, should we tie those two together? i believe we've done so much already on border security that we need to start with these people to allow them to be a real part of the fabric of our country. >> you are also the current co-chair of the congressional caucus on korea and a member of the armed services committee, homeland security committee. i want to talk about the crisis with north korea. what do you think of secretary kerry's offer of direct talks if pyongyang stops testing nuclear weapons? is that a good move? >> we certainly need to have that weapons testing stopped. one thing we know is more they test weapons, the more calibrated they are to be able to get something over to one of our allies or at us so sooner we stop it the better it is. secondly, you know, china is such an important piece of this. really north korea is pretty much isolated except for china. we need to ensure that a green

light comes from them if we're going to do one-on-one talks. that's the first thing. more importantly, we need to have them as a partner. if everything is shut off to north korea but china is still open, then the types of sanctions and other precautions we've taken won't work as effectively. so it's about more than just the two of us. >> john mccain says both republican and democratic legislators have fallen prey to this. >> the answer is to some extent senator mccain is correct in saying that they rattle weapons and they need to feed their people and we give them food and they step aside and they wait a while, et cetera. this has prolonged the effort of them to getting to nuclear weapons. when they begin to starve their people again, they come back and do the same thing. that's why it's important to have china. that's why it's important to

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debate over the nation's soaring death has taken the back seat to guns and immigration reform. that will change in the weeks ahead when lawmakers will square off on whether to raise the debt ceiling. at the recent clinton global initiative, the president recognized students from the university of virginia who won the top prize for their efforts in educating peers about the debt. >> i'm grateful for the passion many students has shown for this issue. they are creative in the

competition. they made youtube videos and held social media contests. >> let's bring in team leader one of the five students who spearheaded the projects. good morning. congratulations. >> thank you, chris. >> so you won the top prize. you got to meet with president clinton. not bad. tell us about your project. >> sounds great. so the campaign was focused on getting students involved in the conversation and making sure that they're active in the learning process before we graduate and before we become representatives in any way or become leaders in our respective fields. our campaign focused on 31 initiatives that got students united with their community members and their representatives. we hosted senator mark warner to connect our representatives with students so that students can feel a more lolot more engaged e conversation.

>> i'm curious. i saw this funny video on youtube where they went around after uva campus asking what the debt is and it ranged from a few million to 100 trillion. do you think that -- what is it that can help you engage students obviously who will have to shoulder this debt? >> great. so many students were initially unaware of many of the issues. however, throughout the campaign and throughout the six weeks, we saw 1,500 students come out to in-person events alone and this showed us that students were interested in learning more and were prepared to join the national debt conversation. and so this campaign is the start of a much longer and sustained dialogue before we come out with a more meaningful solution. >> let me play a little clip from the video you guys put together and people can see the whole thing on youtube. >> i care about my education.

>> i care about working a meaningful job when i graduate. >> i care about retirement after working hard my whole life. >> about access to medicine and treatment when i get hurt. >> it's up to us. >> so can i ask what you're going to do with the $10,000 prize? >> sure. we are trying to use the $10,000 prize to continue engaging students on the conversation. this summer we'll sponsor sti stipends and we're sponsoring academic research so students can ask their own questions and find their own answers to those questions. hopefully this conversation will continue for years to come. >> five people, $10,000, could have pocketed two grand but doing something positive with it. congratulations again to you and the other four. thanks for coming on the program. that's going to wrap up this hour of "jancing and company." i'm chris jansing. thomas roberts is up next.

hey, thomas. >> future leader there. i like that. good morning to you. good morning, everybody. agenda next hour, immigration reform leap frogging over gun debate as senators involved in the bipartisan gang of eight get ready to reveal their plan. does it have the votes to move? meanwhile, a symbol of marriage equality a symbol of solidarity for undocumented immigrants and movie "42" opened in the number one spot over the weekend but where does diversity in major league baseball stand today? a provocative look at the future of the sport. tings... before local farmers and employees became secret ingredients... before rock star chefs were playing to packed houses every night... two restaurateurs sat down with our banker and transformed some chicago neighborhoods into culinary meccas. that's the power of connecting a vision

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